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'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer.Conclusion to the Twilight Saga.

'Heart' by Gail Godwin. An outstanding novelist researches the meanings of Heart. We learn a lot more than we could have anticipated.

'The Coming Economic Collapse' by Stephen Leeb. Written 2006, subtitled How You Can Thrive When Oil is $200 a barrel. Prophetic?

'Ways of Seeing' by John Berger. Paintings as objects seen & how we see them.

'Consumer's guide to Effective Environmental Choices' by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Practical advice.

'Years of Rice and Salt' by Kim Stanley Robinson. The last 700 years as they might have been.

'Damon Runyon' by Jimmy Breslin. 'Breslin's Runyon may well outlast Runyon's Runyon.' - Chicago Tribune

'The Deptford Trilogy' by Robertson Davies. Three connected novels in one volume. Just the right mix of realism and a refusal to take reality too seriously.

'The Theory of the Leisure Class' by Thorstein Veblen. The Noam Chomsky of his day.

'D.B.' by Elwood Reid. ' D.B. is the road trip of your dreams - Hunter Thompson does the driving but John Steinbeck holds the map.'

'God' by Alexander Waugh. ' If God has a sense of humor then I expect Waugh's reward will be in heaven.' - Rabbi Charles Middleburgh

'America's Women' by Gail Collins. If you are a woman and a citizen of the United States, this is a history of a group you cannot escape belonging to. May as well learn about it.

'Ghostwritten' by David Mitchell. A book about nine souls in nine parts of the world and the longing common to us all. '... it's even better the second time.' - A. S. Byatt

'Our Lady of the Lost and Found' by Diane Schoemperlen. What would you do if you found the Blessed Virgin Mary standing in your living room?

'Into the Buzzsaw'. Reporters report on reporting. 'If you believe a free press keeps our leaders honest and our government democratic, you should read this book very, very carefully.'

'The Monk Downstairs' by Tim Farrington. If you like Ann Tyler, you'll probably enjoy this.

'Put a Lid On It' by Donald Westlake. A U. S. President hires an ex-con to steal incriminating evidence. Funny stuff. Ridiculous premise of course, but funny.

'Slander' by Ann Coulter. Subtitled Liberal Lies about the American Right. She doesn't really care for Liberals.

'Blinded by the Right' by David Brock. Subtitled The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. He no longer really likes Conservatives.

'The Little Friend' by Donna Tartt. The author of 'The Secret History' writes another unforgettable novel.

'A Place of Greater Safety' by Hilary Mantel. 'Brilliant, edgy fiction that catches the jittery, violent flux of the French Revolution.'

'Far Tortuga' by Peter Matthiessen. '...about the sea and the wonders below it, and the strange men who have chosen to live or die on a miserable boat hunting for what they know is no longer there.'- Lillian Hellman

''The Underground Man' by Mick Jackson. An endearingly sympathetic novelization of a real 19th Century English Duke who built a labyrinth of tunnels under his estate.

'The Hours' by Michael Cunningham. If you enjoyed the experience of the movie, you'll find the book equally rewarding.

'Maps of the Mind' by Charles Hampden-Turner. Ever wonder how your mind really works? So did a lot of other people whose views are explained here.

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood. A future world, as in 'The Handmaid's Tale', but very different from that one.

'Ceremony' by Leslie Silko. 'A splendid achievement,' said the New York Times, ' by the most accomplished Native American writer of her generation.'

'Time Between Trains' by Anthony Bukoski.'A lovely celebration of the ways ordinary lives are extraordinary.'

'Sex, Time and Power' by Leonard Shlain. Homo Sapiens have big heads, bipeds have small pelvises. Great cultural changes resulted.

'A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life' by Arnold Weinstein. '..enter the looking glass that art provides, and so come into and repossess your true estate.'

'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson.' His best book since he rewrote all the rules in Necromancer.'

'In the Blink of an Eye' by Andrew Parker. Why did the variety of life explode in the Cambrian Era? Because Life discovered the eye. Read all about it.

'The Child That Books Built' by Francis Spufford.'...insight into how literature became a way of understanding the world.'

'The Well-Trained Mind' by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer. 'Provides the techniques, cuirriculum, and resources necessary to ensure that your child's education is the best it can be.'

'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel. A boy, a tiger, a lifeboat. An entertaining and convincing novel.

'The Lie That Tells a Truth: A guide to Writing Fiction' by John Duresne. 'engaging, sometimes moving, often funny, full of goodwill and good sense.'

'Inventing a Nation' by Gore Vidal. If you're an American citizen trying to understand your government, this may help.

'Gospel' by Wilton Barnhardt. If 'The Da Vinci Code' has you interested in Biblical Plot Adventures, you'll like this one.

'Jayber Crow' by Wendell Berry. 'Berry, like Thoreau, marches to a different drummer we would do well to be aware of.' - The San Francisco Chronicle

'Party of the People' by Jules Witcover. A history of the Democrats. There's an election coming up.

'Grand Old Party' by Lewis L. Gould. A history of the Republicans. Be prepared.

'Free Culture' by Lawrence Lessing. Subtitled 'How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity'. As information on the internet increases, our freedom to access it decreases. Why, and what we can do about it.

'Ordinary Wolves' by Seth Kantner. What it truly means to be a human being on North America's last real frontier. 'An astonishing book.' - Barbara Kingsolver.